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Photo by Gregg Trusty/LSUS News

Learning with ‘WETMAAP’

Lawrence R. Handley (standing), co-coordinator for geography at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, answers a question in a summer workshop, “Wetland Education Through Maps And Aerial Photography,” sponsored by the LSUS Red River Watershed Management Institute. Workshop participants include middle school science teachers (from foreground right) Vanessa Zeno, Ridgewood Middle School; Kristen Kneubuhl, Walnut Hill Middle School, and Jamie David, Broadmoor Middle Lab. The workshop taught the teachers, among other useful skills, how to interpret wetland changes and objectively discuss causes and effects of change; combine graphic skills, aerial photographic interpretation and manual GIS techniques to analyze and explain wetland habitat distribution and change, and introduce inexpensive and traditional interpretation techniques into their curricula.